Sales Teams Are They Necessary

What people forget about Lean is that it is the change agent for an organization. This is what attracted me to apply it in the sales and marketing arena. When we sell a product to a customer, we are often asking them to change their behavior or the way they do things. Most of us Read More …

Control Points and Handoffs

Most of us agree that hand-offs generate it a great deal of waste both in lost opportunities and mistakes. In most Value Stream Mapping  projects, it is the first area that we concentrate on. In Sales, the dreaded hand-off may be the most difficult part of sales team jobs. Many sales people are very possessive Read More …

Lean Thinking on Value

Adam Zak is the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Adam Zak Executive Search and an accomplished senior executive with more than 25 years of experience spanning the areas of management consulting; financial and operations management; and talent acquisition. Adam excels at identifying and attracting business leaders who are experts in lean continuous improvement, Read More …

Holacracy, Zappos and Standard Work

According to the Holacracy.org website, it is a social technology for the agile organization, one that bakes adaptability and responsiveness into the core of the organization. One of my favorite authors, Joseph Michelli describes in a blog post, A Case Study for 2014 – Learning from the Legendary Leaders, as: Holacracy has been best defined Read More …

Secrets on Learning about People

This Business901 podcast is a two-part series with Adam Zak, founder and CEO of Adam Zak Executive Search. He is an accomplished senior executive with more than 25 years of experience spanning the areas of management, consulting, financial and operations management and talent acquisition. He co-authored the book, Simple Excellence: Organizing and Aligning the Management Read More …

Why Sales Should Never be a Process

Processes are good, right? They capture what we do well, and allow average people to do better. The argument may be that they prevent exceptional people from being exceptional but we are looking to be an exceptional organization. There are few disciplines that has seen more failed efforts to create a process than the sales Read More …